Ok no but this literally was announced at 530 this morning as I was waiting to board the shuttle to my flight. A white pilot was there and he started shouting and celebrating and telling everyone after throwing his mask away. When he told me it was almost like he half expected me to throw my mask in the air and dance a jig. I did not.
When we boarded the shuttle, the (black) bus driver refused to drive until all passengers were masked. These 3 (white) pilots, including aforementioned pilot, stared to loudly argue about how the federal government trumps the bus rules and how it was stupid and no longer needed. The bus driver held his ground until the pilots all begrudgingly, sort of, masked up.
When the shuttle dropped us off, I shit you not, this man ran down the terminal telling people the mandate was lifted like he was Paul revere and the British were coming.
I did not remove my n95 for even a second from the moment I stepped out of my car until I got in my rental car over 10 hours later.
As an immune compromised person, the mask mandate was the only thing that really made me feel comfortable flying and now I have to make serious evaluations about every trip I’m scheduled to take this year
What confuses me here is that wearing a mask does not protect you. Nor was it ever intended to. Like I’m sure you felt safe wearing your mask, but it doesn’t in any way keep you from catching the virus. It helps prevent you from *spreading* the virus if you have it. But you’re in equal danger whether you wear it or leave it on under the circumstances you described.
What a wonderful opportunity to talk about how this is 100% false and that even doible layered cloth masks reduce your likelihood for catching Covid by 70% and a well fitting n95 can reduce your chances by over 90%.
Wear your mask, even if no one else is. It could save your life.
The official opinion of me, some rando who got Covid last weekend:
wear your masks you dumb shits
I don’t like even getting colds and the flu…we all know airplanes are nasty nasty disease spreading tin cans. Hell, they can’t even keep their water dispensers clean. UGH just keep the masks on planes forever until they get their shit together, seriously.
Also, when ever it’s cold season? Just wear the mask? I mean, this is a point for post-covid, which won’t ever happen unless, you know. WE ALL WEAR THE MASKS DUMBASSES.
Also covid is more like a concussion than a cold?? You get it once while vaxxed, fine, whatever. You get it more than once…oooh buddy, sorry to break it to ya, but you’ve now entered the land of disability. Omicron fucks you up MORE the more you get it, and y’all are all about to gradually become disabled. Then all those whiny complaints about the disabled being some ‘other’ instead of just another person next to you is gonna be you now, dipshit.
I hate everything about this, you can all go fuck yourself if you don’t wear a mask, but get this? I wear my mask not go get it, sure, but somehow, even though I hate you all more than the fiery death of a 1000 burning suns, I still don’t want you to die.
If you’re against putting safe needle disposals in public restrooms you’re basically saying you want to force addicts to leave them where they’re a danger to everyone else
Okay some people seem to be confused.
Yes these are necessary for people with diabetes and other conditions but I constantly see people saying they shouldn’t have these in bathrooms SPECIFICALLY because they’re afraid of “junkies” using them, as if the presence of a sharps box will encourage more people to come into that bathroom specifically to get high.
Not only is that ridiculous, but addicts are still human beings, not pest animals to shoo away from every safe place they can go.
Not to mention as a cleaning person you’re putting my health and safety at risk in the name of bullshit drug war prudery. Cause ppl are still gonna use needles in the restroom, they’re just gonna throw them in the regular trash instead where I could easily get stuck while changing it out.
So I used to work in a public library. My coworker got poked by a used needle when she picked up an abandoned bag. It…was probably just a bag that should have gone in the garbage but that level of…maybe this down-on-their-luck person will come back for it…? She grabbed it, a needle poked out and she got stuck by a used drug needle.
For….years? We, the workers, had been showing statistics and begging management for a safe needle depository in the bathrooms. The cleaning folks already had a bio needle box in their cleaning rooms from the ones they just…found. It was really irresponsible that we didn’t just have them in the bathrooms.
Some things were discovered when my coworker got poked:
-the library had no protocol for what to do if someone got poked on work time. They wasted like an hour before getting her to an urgent care for needle-stick ER care. (she ended up being fine but that’s not the point of broader policy care)
-they almost didn’t cover her urgent care medical costs but because she had friends in high places they reluctantly covered the expense.
-they covered up that they didn’t have an emergency protocol by BACKDATING a policy they wrote after it happened. It was obvious, but no one realized this was, like. Bad. Super bad.
So, years pass. And other things got increasingly worse, and the director was fired for, if you can believe it, unrelated reasons.
I, personally, discovered a mysterious paper bag hidden behind some books while shelving. I scooted it off the shelf with another book and it just barely missed my foot. It ended up having a bare needle in it, kinda done and obviously garbage. But knowing my coworker’s experience, I refused to touch it, warned the janitorial, and stepped back. It took another director coming in, me telling this specific story, and begging literally for needle disposal personally for it to happen. I think to him it was an easy gimme.
I don’t know why it’s a THING for some management. Like in their head they would rather hide they are quietly putting their staff and the public at risk by not putting the needle disposal in the public bathroom because the public that they like might see it and complain. Anywhere with high public traffic should have the needle boxes in the bathrooms.
Be suspicious of anywhere that has a ton of public traffic and no disposal on site. Know that it ends up in hidden spots, endangering staff. Know that the management has heard complaints from staff, someone probably got stuck, and it’s management’s fault.
Applying for jobs is a hell designed specifically to torment autistic people. Here is a well-paying task which you know in your heart and soul if they just gave you a desk and left you alone and allowed you to do it you would sit there and be more focused and enthusiastic and excellent at it than anyone else in the building. However, before they allow you to perform the task, you must pass through 3-4 opaque social crucibles where you must wear uncomfortable clothes and make eye contact while everyone expects you to lie, but not too much (no one is ever clear exactly how much lying is expected, “over” honesty is however penalized). You are being judged almost entirely on how well you understand these very specific and unclear rules that no one has explained. None of this has anything to do with your ability to perform the desired task.
all of these guys look like they’re in pockets that fit them well and where they would not have needed to be forced or squished in. they all look relaxed and comfortable with no signs of distress.
